History of Bengali Language and Literature c10.s2.83

c10.s2.83

There are hundreds of songs describing the transitoriness of life and the vanity of human wishes; and there is hardly a rustic in a Bengal-village who does not sing to himself some favourite tune having for its burden the mutability of fortune, as, after his weary day of labour, he lays down his tools to retire to rest. Here is another song of the same class: —